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<h3 class="section">12.2 GNU Emacs</h3>

<p>Although the Free Software Foundation has many enlightened practices
regarding Makefiles and software installation (see see <a href="Other-FSF-Software.html#Other-FSF-Software">Other FSF Software</a>), Emacs, its flagship program, doesn&rsquo;t quite follow the
rules.  In particular, most GNU software allows you to write:
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<pre class="example">make
make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/<var>package</var>
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<p>If you try this with Emacs, then the new value for <var>prefix</var> in the
&lsquo;<samp>make install</samp>&rsquo; step will cause some files to get recompiled with
the new value of <var>prefix</var> wired into them.  In Emacs 19.23 and
later,<a name="DOCF8" href="#FOOT8"><sup>8</sup></a>
the way to work around this problem is:
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<pre class="example">make
make install-arch-dep install-arch-indep prefix=/usr/local/stow/emacs
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<p>In 19.22 and some prior versions of Emacs, the workaround was:
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make do-install prefix=/usr/local/stow/emacs
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<h3><a name="FOOT8" href="#DOCF8">(8)</a></h3>
<p>As I write this, the current version of Emacs is 19.31.</p>
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